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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-30 16:34:01


From: "David B. Held" <dheld_at_[hidden]>

> "Fernando Cacciola" <fcacciola_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:akoh24$npk$1_at_main.gmane.org...
> >
> > "Greg Colvin" <Gregory.Colvin_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> > news:5.1.1.6.2.20020830130145.02a48df0_at_rgmgitmail.oraclecorp.com...
> > > I vote for "bag".
> > >
> > Gee! You've just took it out of my mouth! :-)
>
> You had a bag in your mouth? How odd. ;) Seriously, though, when I
> see 'bag', I read 'heterogenous container', not 'set'. Anyone else have
> that problem?
>

Yes. Bag says something like "container of X, whose properties I have
little interest in except that I can put things in and take things out".

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